The Ancients
Welcome to Ganking Giants in the Glacier, a Papa Grok Production.
Meet in Bjarken (use the porter by the bind stone in Aegirhamn) at 1130 AM Eastern, ??-??-????. Raid will move out promptly at noon with no speed. There will be a 5 minute hold after we zone into TG.
Some Grok will be leading/pulling. The raid is not a democracy, it's my way or the highway. I will be solo. I won't get any gold, any junk loot or any type of experience. If the raid is poorly behaved, I will merely log.
The raid will go for 4-8 hours, depending on attendance. We can go with as few as 9 and as many as 100. The raid will not be aborted due to relic threats. Relics come and go, such is life.
Level 45+ for lotto, bots highly discouraged, no pets, no running and jumping, no unauthorized zerging, no rude behavior.
Anyone who lottos for a bot will be lifetime banned from future raids. There will be undercover raid leaders looking for bots and excessive afk's.
No proxies for lotto if you leave before Ice Lord Agmundr. If you can't stay until then you are not eligible for loot.
I am not claiming anything. However, the Lottomeister will get a bonus single line respec stone for the worst job there is. After that it's a greed lotto based on your /random, one item a person until all have an item. Generally people get two items apiece. The lotto will be top to bottom, bottom to top format.
The raid is run on a two yellow or one red card system, get them and you are out of raid.
Running and jumping at a camp is a yellow card.
Any criticism of a raid leader is an automatic red card.
Any whining as to the lotto format or winners is an automatic red card.
Any tells complaining of a card being issued will result in another card of the same color being given.
Removal from the lotto and/or raid is not limited to the rules above.
Having read and agreeing to abide by these rules is mandatory for raid participation. Group leaders are responsible for ensuring that this is the case. If you have someone in your group who does not understand English, you had better be fluent in their native language. If it seems that someone has not read this, the raid will be stopped until that person does so.
Anyone removed from the raid shall be disbanded from their group. Failure to do so will result in the group being removed from the lotto.
Don't send me tells during the raid. I will be in Ventrilo with my close friends. Everytime I have to type, I stop moving.
Any person or persons griefing the raid will be reported to Mythic with the expectation of account suspension or termination.
This IS your Daddy's raid! (Jethro Gibbs is a wuss.) Everyone is expected to act in a mature fashion and follow all instructions. If you can't stay focused, don't come. If you had a bad day at work, a fight with your significant other or child or your pet defecated inside the house, don't bring your problems to the game.
Have I scared some of you away? Great, that's best for all concerned. I have a 57 year old wife and a 23 year old daughter, they provide me with my quota of drama.
If you have ever been on a TG raid of mine, you will know that they are one of the most enjoyable events available in the game.
I run raids tight ship style, but humor is encouraged. If you don't like something about the raid, I don't want to hear about it. Leave quietly and run your own raid as you see fit.
If you have the right stuff, come and join us. If not, I suggest you work on your crafting skills.
If you come to this raid looking for uber loot, don't bother. The loot is fine, but Darkspire and Labyrinth loot is generally better.
I plan to run these raids on a regular basis if people are well behaved. If not I will switch them to invitation only raids.
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After we clear the first hall of the skellies, we will camp just short of the 3-way. There we will go through a drill of me pulling and the raid assisting on a mob. A main assist will be designated. No one is to do ANY ranged attack until the main assist melees it. Any spell, arrow or throwing weapon that is used from a distance greater than zero is a ranged attack. If you make a premature ranged attack, you will receive a card. If you are not the main assist, you will use side and back styles. If you get agg, you will detaunt. The goal is to have the mob only parrying the main assist. If you do not conform this method you will receive a card. Any tank, other than the main assist, who is getting parried is of no value to the raid.
Weapons that proc fire upset the mobs and they respond with a proc of their own. Therefore, leave those weapons in your vault.
DONT HEAL ME! HoT's, Frigg's, cure poison, cure disease and demezz are fine. I would rather die and be rezzed than be healed and have to relog to clear group agro. I know every nook and cranny of TG and I rarely die.
Once we leave the 3-way, there will be no waiting on ld's. The mobs don't respawn past the skellies for many hours.
Once the training session is completed, we will press on. I will make the statement, "raid come to me and hold please". That will signify a new camp. I will pull to that camp. If I say something like, "zerg the next 3 snakes and hold", please do so.
Unless I call a zerg, no one is ever to be ahead of my toon.
We will work our way through the spine room. When I pull a Dominator, I will kite the 2 adds that come with him. The raid will kill the Dominator first. If you hit an add, you will receive a card. When the Dominatior is dead, the main assist will peel off one of the adds as I continue to kite the other.
Councils Hurd, Ozur and Otrygg will be single pulls. The main assist will be the only one in front of them.
The kiting technique will be used when I pull Council Vagn. I will kite Council Nokkvi. If you hit Nokkvi, you will receive a card.
At this point in the raid, we can expect to have 20-30 pieces of loot. I will move the raid back a few rooms and clear up to Ice Lord Agmundr. If the raid has a hard time or wipes on Agmundr, we will proceed to lotto. If there was no problem, I will see how many care to proceed. By this time, 3-4 hours will likely have elapsed. If the raid continues, proxies for only the items already dropped will be allowed.
If we have 80+ and things are going well, we will attempt to kill the King and Queen. I will not be doing the Shard Room or the Griffin Avairy. The Jail Room will be up to a vote.
For more information on Tuscaran Glacier check out http://www.bloodeagles.org/maps/si/Tuscaran_Glacier_Carne.pdf